Original tutorial by Loiva

Thank you Loiva for the permission to translate your tutorial.
Translated by Marie Nickol.

You will find the original tutorial here:

 

This tutorial is a personal creation by Loiva.

Any resemblance with another one would only be pure coincidence.

Thank you for the respect of Loiva’s work and the tubers work.

These translations are mine and are intended for personal use only and it is forbidden to copy part or all of it.

You can use this tutorial for PSP lessons but please put the link back to it.

Do not hesitate to let Loiva or me know if you have any problem with the present tutorial.

 

Materials used:

Disclaimer: Modifying or renaming files or removing watermarks from the tubes of the original tubers provided in the materials and sharing them as your own or using them for sale online or otherwise is prohibited.

1 character tube by Danimage
1 mask by MD

 

Plugins used:

Simple - Pizza Slice Mirror
Andrews Filters Collections 55 - cs_texture
MuRa's Meister - Copies

 

You can find my plugins page - Here

 

Materials

 

This translation is written with PSP 2020, if you work with other versions some things might be different but the result will be the same.

 

Note: In the latest versions of PSP the command
Image-Mirror has become Image - Mirror - Mirror Horizontal
and Image-Flip has become Image - Mirror - Mirror Vertical

 

Preparations

Duplicate all the tubes and work with the copies to preserve the originals.

If you don't have the plugins install them into your Plugins folder for PSP

 

The Tutorial

Colors used

Materials Properties: Set your Foreground color 1 #ffefe7

Materials Properties - Set your Backgroundcolor to color 2 #ffffff

Note: When working with own colors - choose a light color from your tube

Color 3 = #ffb5ad

 

Step 1

File - New - Open a new Transparent image 900 x 600 pixels

Flood fill tool / Fill in the layer with the light color 1 #ffefe7

 

Step 2

Selections - Select All

Open tube - tube danimage fleurette 202320

Remove the watermark

Edit - Copy

Edit - Paste - Paste into Selection the flowers tube on your working image

Selections - Select None

 

Step 3

Effects - Image Effects - Seamless Tiling

 

Step 4

Adjust - Blur - Gaussian Blur (Radius 25)

 

Step 5

Effects - Plugins - <I.C.NET Software> - Filters Unlimited 2.0 - Simple - Pizza Slice Mirror

 

Step 6

Activate your Freehand Selection Tool

Carefully select the top triangle as shown on the image below

 

Step 7

Selections - Promote Selection to Layer

Keep selection selected!!!

 

Step 8

Effects - Plugins - <I.C.NET Software> - Filters Unlimited 2.0 - Andrews Filters Collections 55 - Amazing Brew

 

Step 9

Selections - Select None

Layers - Duplicate

Image - Flip

Layers - Merge - Merge Down

 

Step 10

Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow (0/0/74/23.50) color black #000000 - Shadow on new layer not checked

 

Step 11

Effects - Plugins - MuRa's Meister - Copies

 

Step 12

In your Layer Properties - set the Blend mode to Overlay

 

Step 13

Layers - Duplicate

Image - Mirror

 

Your layers look like this:

 

Step 14

Activate the bottom layer - Raster 1

Layers - New Raster Layer

Flood fill tool / Fill in the layer with your background color 2 #ffffff

 

Step 15

Open mask - MASK-MD-110

Layers - New Mask Layer - From Image (Invert mask data not checked)

Layers - Merge - Merge Group

 

Step 16

Adjust - Sharpness- Sharpen

 

Step 17

In your Layer Properties - set the Blend mode to Luminance (Legacy)

 

Step 18

Activate the top layer - Copy of Promoted Selection

Open tube - tube danimage fleurette 202320 again

Edit - Copy

Edit - Paste - Paste As New Layer on your working image

Image - Resize - 80% - Resize All Layers - Not Checked

Position it in the center


Step 19

Adjust - Blur - Gaussian Blur (Radius 25)

 

Step 20

In your Layer Properties - set the Blend mode to Lighten

 

Step 21

Edit - Copy Special - Copy Merged

Edit - Paste As New Image

Minimize it for now

 

Step 22

Image - Add Borders - 1px - Symmetric checked - color black #000000

 

Step 23

Selections - Select All

Image - Add Borders - 25px - Symmetric checked - color 2 #ffffff

Selections - Invert

Edit - Copy the minimized image from Step 21

Edit - Paste Into Selection

 

Step 24

Adjust - Blur - Gaussian Blur (Radius 25)

 

Step 25

Effects - Art Media Effects - Brush Strokes

 

Step 26

Selections - Invert

Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow (0/0/74/23.50) color black #000000 - Shadow on new layer not checked

Selections - Select None

 

Step 27

Open tube - tube danimage fleurette 202320 again

Image - Resize - 80% - Resize All Layers - Not Checked

Edit - Copy

Edit - Paste - Paste As New Layer on your working image

Position the tube in the center

Objects - Align - Horizontal Center

Objects - Align - Bottom

 

Step 28

Image - Add Borders - 1px - Symmetric checked - color black #000000

 

Step 29

Layers - New Raster Layer

 

Step 30

Add your name or watermark

Layers - Merge - Merge All (Flatten)

Image - Resize - 900 pixels width (the height will adapt)

File - Export - Save as JPG file

 

 

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My version with my own tube